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Verse Joshua 3:15. _AND THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS - WERE DIPPED IN THE
BRIM OF_ _THE WATER_] Thus we find that every thing occurred exactly
in the way in which Joshua had foretold it. This must have gre...
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JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS - Rather “is full up to all his
banks,” i. e. “brim-full.” This remark strikingly illustrates
the suddenness and completeness, not less than the greatness, of the
marv...
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3. THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The Ark of Jehovah going before (Joshua 3:1)_
2. Jehovah's words to Joshua (Joshua 3:7)
3. Joshua's words to the people (Joshua 3:9)
4. The passage accompl...
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JOSHUA 3:1 TO JOSHUA 5:1. THE CROSSING OF JORDAN. Here we begin to
meet with more serious difficulties. The old tradition was that after
the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, they commemorated the ev...
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FOR. Note the parenthesis.
OVERFLOWETH. So to the present day.
BANKS. Hebrew found only four times in O.T.; here, Jos 4:18. 1
Chronicles 12:15.Isaiah 8:7. All but the last, of the Jordan.
HARVEST. b...
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_for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest_ In the
deeply sunken, tropical valley of the Jordan, the harvest had already
commenced, and the snow on Hermon having begun to melt, the...
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Jordan turned backwards
14. _when the people removed_ i.e. on the 10th day of Abib or Nisan,
the same month they before witnessed the departure from Egypt,
corresponding to our April or May....
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_VER._ 14-16. _AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE REMOVED FROM THEIR
TENTS,_ &C.— This was on Friday the 10th of the first month of
_Abib,_ or _Nisan,_ which answers to our 30th of April. On this gr...
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_VER._ 15. (_JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS ALL THE TIME OF
HARVEST_)— The Jordan overflows at the time of barley harvest, (1
Chronicles 12:15.) at the beginning of the summer, contrary to other
riv...
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_The Parting of the Jordan Joshua 3:14-17_
14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to
pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant
before the people;
15...
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_AND AS THEY THAT BARE THE ARK WERE COME UNTO JORDAN, AND THE FEET OF
THE PRIESTS THAT BARE THE ARK WERE DIPPED IN THE BRIM OF THE WATER,
(FOR JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS ALL THE TIME OF HARVEST,...
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THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN
This is the initial miracle of Joshua's leadership. Its moral effect
upon the Israelite host is suggested in Joshua 3:7 and Joshua 4:14
that wrought upon the Canaanites in Joshua...
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JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS] The rank jungle, which fills the bed
(150 ft. deep) that Jordan has hollowed out at the bottom of the rift,
down which it flows, marks the extent of the April floods....
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 3
THE PEOPLE CROSS THE RIVER JORDAN – JOSHU...
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וּ כְ בֹ֞וא נֹשְׂאֵ֤י הָֽ אָרֹון֙ עַד
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CHAPTER IX.
JORDAN DIVIDED.
Joshua Ch. 3-4.
AT Joshua's command the priests carrying the ark are again in motion.
Bearing the sacred vessel on their shoulders, they make straight for
the bank of the...
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THE JORDAN SAFELY CROSSED
Joshua 3:1
For three days the host faced that swollen river. It was enough to
appall them, except that, like Abraham, they dared to behold it in the
light of the divine prom...
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The first movement in the actual advance of the people into the land
was of such a nature as to impress them with e truth of their positive
relation to God. There was nothing in this first advance cal...
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The text does not tell us why Joshua broke camp at Shittim, not more
than 6 miles from Jordan, to move closer to the river. Some suggest it
was to impress upon the people the fact that they could not...
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And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of
the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,
(for Jordan overfloweth all his (f) banks all the time of harve...
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Water. Thus they manifested the strength of their faith. (Calmet) ---
Immediately the obedient waters divided, and the gravel or sand was
left dry, ver. 17. (Haydock) --- Channel. The barley harvest w...
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We shall have a much better apprehension of the greatness of this
miracle, if we call to mind some of the circumstances connected with
it. Jordan, at this time, overflowed, from the mountains of ice w...
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The book of Joshua naturally follows the five books of Moses, and
indeed is connected more manifestly with those that go before it than
might appear to an ordinary reader. It opens not with a mere par...
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15._And as they that bare the ark, _etc The valor of the priests in
proceeding boldly beyond the bed into the water itself, was deserving
of no mean praise, since they might have been afraid of being...
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And now the people are to enter the promised land; but how enter it?
For Jordan, with its flood at the highest, lay as a barrier before the
people of God, guarding the territory of those that oppose t...
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AND AS THEY THAT BARE THE ARK WERE COME UNTO JORDAN,.... Not to the
bank, which was overflowed, but to the extremity of the water
overflowing:
AND THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS THAT BARE THE ARK WERE DIPPE...
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And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of
the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,
(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)...
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_The feet of the priests were dipped in the brim of the water_ The
stream stopped immediately, as if a sluice had been let down to dam it
up; so that the waters above swelled, stood on a heap, and ran...
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1 Ioshua commeth to Iordan.
2 The Officers instruct the people for the passage.
7 The LORD incourageth Ioshua.
9 Ioshua incourageth the people.
14 The waters of Iordan are diuided.
[THE ARKE BORN...
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and as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of
the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water
(for Jordan, barely a hundred feet wide in the dry season, OVERF...
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THE MIRACULOUS WALL OF WATER...
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THE CROSSING OF JORDAN
(vv. 1-17)
The next morning Joshua arose early and led Israel to the river. There
may be a question as regards the three days spoken of in chapter 2:11
and the three days the...
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14-17 Jordan overflowed all its banks. This magnified the power of
God, and his kindness to Israel. Although those who oppose the
salvation of God's people have all advantages, yet God can and will
c...
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Which is also noted 1 CHRONICLES 12:15 /APC SIR 24:26, and by
Aristoeas in the History of the LXX. Interpreters. This is meant not
of the wheat harvest, but of the barley harvest, (which was before it...
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Joshua 3:15 bore H5375 (H8802) ark H727 came H935 (H8800) Jordan H3383
feet H7272 priests H3548 bore...
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Joshua 3:14 a
‘And so it was that when the people removed from their tents to pass
over Jordan, the priests bearing the Ark of the covenant being before
the people, and when those who bore the ark wer...
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CONTENTS: The passing of Jordan.
CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests.
CONCLUSION: The believer is to go on in the way of duty, though
foreseeing great difficulties, depending on the divine sufficiency...
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Joshua 3:5. _Sanctify yourselves,_ by washings and purifications. The
Persians, when commissioned to march against Babylon, are called God's
sanctified ones; for the ministers of his vengeance are hol...
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_The priests _. .. _ before the people._
MINISTERS AS LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE
It is not always that either priests or Christian ministers have set
the example of going before in any hazardous undertaki...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 3:15. Jordan overfloweth] Owing to the melting of the snow on
the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains. “The swellings of Jordan”
seems to have driven the wild beasts from their...
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EXPOSITION
THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN—
JOSHUA 3:7
THIS DAY WILL I BEGIN TO MAGNIFY THEE. "_Neque enim ante mysterium
baptismi exal-tatur Jesus, sed exaltatio ejus, et exaltatio in
conspectu pepuli, i...
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As we get into chapter three,
Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and
they came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and they
lodged there before they passed...
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1 Chronicles 12:15; Deuteronomy 16:1; Isaiah 26:6; Jeremiah 12:5;...
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CROSSING THE JORDAN
Joshua 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We wish to discuss the preparatory steps to the crossing of the
Jordan. These steps are set forth in the opening verses of our
chapter.
1. LODGING...
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All the time of harvest — This is meant not of wheat — harvest,
but of the barley — harvest, as is manifest from their keeping the
passover at their first entrance, Joshua 5:10, which was kept on the...